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Identity & Access Management Senior Technical Lead

Freddie Mac

Job Description

Posted on: 
March 10, 2025

Summary and company overview

Position Overview:

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Senior tech lead is responsible for leading engineering related initiatives to build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. Candidate must be a strategic, thought leader, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment. The lead must oversee the development of security solutions that adhere to applicable policies and comply with information security requirements.

Company Overview:

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

Responsibilities

  • As part of IAM solution architecture and engineering team, you should drive business outcomes through tech solutions, must understand the business objectives (intended outcomes) and must identify feasible solutions that will enable/further those outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Formulate and manage a business and resource plan for the team to ensure appropriate resources are aligned to support IAM strategic plans, goals, and objectives.
  • Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals.
  • Work with other development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with current authentication patterns, and standards.
  • Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 10 years’ experience with developing and implementing identity and access management tools and solutions.
  • Minimum 8 years’ experience managing and developing strong information security and/or technology teams.
  • Understanding of IAM relevant technical solutions (such as SailPoint, MFA-Ping, Privileged Access Management: CyberArk). Fine-grained authentication policy enforcement and standardization via PlainID.
  • Demonstrated experience with infrastructure technologies including Cloud, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and MFA/SSO.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively at the most senior levels of the company to communicate the value and benefit of IAM solutions.
  • Specific experience with NIST, PCI, or other information security related framework.
  • Ability to convey technical information to all groups and individuals concisely and clearly both verbally and in writing to individuals with limited technical experience.
  • CISSP, CISM, Cloud Security (CCSP, CCSK), or other information security related certification(s).
  • Customer service driven, quality focused, and collaborative with effective and persuasive written and oral communication skills.

Additional commentary

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

  • A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

Summary and company overview

Position Overview:

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Senior tech lead is responsible for leading engineering related initiatives to build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. Candidate must be a strategic, thought leader, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment. The lead must oversee the development of security solutions that adhere to applicable policies and comply with information security requirements.

Company Overview:

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

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